Your mileage may vary but I've had some luck with http://www.allmusic.com/
it manages to stay reasonably up to date and their error rate seems to have
improved somewhat in the last few years ... N
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Hans Ahlstrom <hahlstro at nmu.edu> wrote:
>>> Are there any websites that include easy to access info about specific
> songs/tunes, albums, artists, and even historical tidbits to help me and my
> part-time (student) announcers in fleshing out our selections more?
> Sometimes when I'm putting a show together, I start looking for interesting
> info about one of the above, but so far finding stuff about the artists is
> the only consistent winner. I go to AllAboutJazz.com, artist bio pages,
> even
> Wiki, and I make one of my students do two featured artist bios each week,
> but I'm looking for one good resource (hail Mary and a wing and a prayer, I
> know, but I figured I'd ask anyway).
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> Hans
>>>>>> Hans Ahlstrom
>> WNMU-FM
>> 1401 Presque Isle Ave
>> Northern Michigan University
>> Marquette, MI 49855
>> www.wnmufm.org
>> <mailto:hahlstro at nmu.edu> hahlstro at nmu.edu>>--
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